Excellent game overall. Great graphics, AI plays smart, generally fun. The only blind spot/blight are the ridiculous mandatory quests, which strongly determine who will win or lose. Fundamentally, two of them, especially if given late, are almost impossible to recover from, meaning that victory is merely luck. At home we have returned the mandatory quests to the box and never play with them. Regrettably, the designers refuse to implement a simple button for removing them from play. If they did that, the game would be awesome.

Fun game whether playing with friends or just doing a solo game. a great way to waste 30 minutes.